[julimar9]

Hi Everyone,
I have an Airport extreme base station with a ADSL connection to the internet I have one iBook connected via wireless and an imac connected via ethernet to the LAN port on the base station. My problem is that when set up I am unable to turn off the internet connection at the computer on the imac, I am not given an option in the airport drop down menu, as is the case with the wireless connection. Can anyone help please.
Thank you.

[mystery_stain]

You might be misunderstanding what is happenig at the iBook. When you see "Turn AirPort Off" in your ibook menu, it means you are turning off power to the AirPort card inside the iBook, which does not affect anything outside the iBook. The wireless network itself still runs, and if you had a second wireless Mac it would still be able to use it. Another way to look at it, if you were at a wireless Internet cafe and chose "Turn Off AirPort," you are not turning off the entire cafe's network, just your iBook's reception. Otherwise everyone else at the cafe would be angry! /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
You are not using Airport on the iMac, so it has no Airport card to turn off, therefore no menu item on the iMac. Also remember that the wireless connection and the Internet connection are 2 different things, so even if you turn off AirPort, the iMac still has DSL Internet access through the Ethernet wire. The only way to shut down the whole wireless network is to unplug the Apple base station, and the only way to shut down the entire DSL connection is to cut power to the DSL modem.

[car1son]

Actually, when you use an Apple Airport Base Station, the pull-down menu on the Airport menu-bar status does have a separate "Disconnect..." command (in addition to the "Turn off Airport", which as you say only affects the card in the iBook.) At least there is on my Powerbook, but only when I'm connected to the ABS (The menu item disappears when I join the LinkSys side of my network. You'd think the airport admin password would be required to execute the disconnect? Maybe I'll experiment some time.) It presumably uses the same Apple admin extensions that let it display the extended base station connection status (E.g., "Searching for PPPoE server...") in the menu bar or Internet Connect. However, since this menu is associated with the Airport status indicator, there doesn't appear to be a way to get to it from a wired station. (In my experience, the disconnect is short-lived - the base station always seems to re-connect to the PPPoE server immediately after. I just end up with a different IP from my DSL provider. If I want to shut down the external connection during a long absence, I just unplug the Airport.)